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BRADNER WKLLiS LRK. 

EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN. 

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CAPT. FRANK CLARKE PRESCOTT. JR. 

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WILLIS MILXOR DiXdN. 

^i^cgistrar 

FREEMAN (JOLOINCi TEED. 

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WILLARJ) ATHERTON NICHOLS. 

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MA.IOR ANDREW JAMES CUI'P. JR. 

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REV. BAKER PERKINS LEE, 

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HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS 

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HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS. 

FRANK PUTNAM FLINT. 

JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERV. 

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HENRV HARBINSON SINCLAIR. 

WILLIS MILNOR DIXON. 

DONNELL GEORGE FISHER. 



The Sookity 
JuN 1911 




LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS 




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LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS 

SON OF 

JOHN PHILLIPS 
A SOLDIER OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 

fj^HE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY SONS OP THE REYOLUTION, HONORS 
AS ONE OP ITS MOST CHERISHED MEMBERS, THE SON OF A 
VALIANT SOLDIER WHO SERVED THROUGH MANY CAMPAIGNS 
WITH THE CONTINENTAL TROOPS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND 
SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. 

JOHN PHILLIPS WAS BORN 1759, IN HALIFAX COUNTY, NORTH 
(CAROLINA, AND HE DIED ON NOVEMBER 20, ]S3(;, IN JOHNSTON 
COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. 

A FEW YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS 
CHILDREN, HE COMPILED A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF HIS LIFE, OP 
WHICH A MOST INTERESTING PART IS NOW RETAINED BY HIS SON. 

THIS MEMOIR IS WRITTEN IN BEAUTIFULLY REGULAR AND DIS- 
TINCT CHARACTERS, AND HIS OBSERVATIONS UPON THE SOCIAL 
LIFE OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PROFOUNDLY RELIGIOUS 
COURSE OF THOUGHT PERVADING HIS WRITINGS INDICATE AN INTEL 
LECTUAL CULTURE OF A HIGH ORDER. 

OF HIS EARLY LIFE HE SAYS: 

"MY FATHER DYED IN MY INFANCY, LONG BEFORE MY REMEM- 
BRANCE; MY MOTHER BEING POOR AND NOT FURNISHED WITH THE 
NE(JESSARIES OF LIFE GAVE ME UP TO THE DISCRESION OF MY 
UNCLES AND GRANDMOTHER BY FATHER'S SIDE. MY GRANDMOTHER 
TOOK SOME PAINS IN LEARNING ME MY CREED, THE LORD'S 
PRAYER ETC, AND WAS VERY CAUTIOUS IN NOT ALLOWING MiE TO 
LYE, CURSE NOR SWEAR. IT PLEASED THE LORD TO PUT IT INTO 
THEIR HEARTS TO GIVE ME SOME SCHOOLING." 

HIS FIRST ENLISTMENT WAS IN JULY 1775, AS A PRIVATE IN 




CAPTAIN POKT'S COMPANY OK TIIK SOT'TII CAROLINA RECxIMENT 
COMMANDED BV COLONEL POWELL, A.\D UIS LAST ENLISTMENT WAS 
ON OCTOBER 10, 177,S, JX THE COMI'ANV OP CAPTAIN JOSEl'H WOOD, 
IN THE NORTH CAROLINA RECIMKNT COMMANDED I5V COLONEL 
I'HILTP ALSTON. H K PA UTICI I'ATIII) IN MAX V TOURS AND SKIRMISHES. 
AND IN THIO H.VTTEES OP HHW.H CK'EEK. GEORCilA, MARCH .3. 1779; 
COWPENS, SOUTH CAKOIJNA, .lANIAI.'V 17, 17S1, AM) CUILPORD, NORTH 
CAROLINA, MARCH l.", 17X1, KPCPl V i \( J AN HONOKAHLE DISCHARCE 
AT THE CLOSE OP HIS SERVICES, WHEN HE RESUMED HIS STUDIES 
AND POR A CONSIDERABLE I'lOIMol) HE TAUGHT SCHOOL. 

HIS SECOND WIPE WAS POLI.V THOMPSON, WHOM HE MARRIED 
ON OCTOBER 3, ISL'l, IN JOHNSTON COUNTS, NORTH CAROLINA, WHEU'E 
HE LIVED THE LIPE OP A PLANTER. AN I. HERE, ON OCTOBER 2, 1831, 
WAS BORN HIS SON LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS, THE YOUNGEST OP 
HIS THREE CHILDREN BY THIS MARRIAGE. 

ON AUGUST 2!t, 1S37, HE WAS GRANTED A PENSION BY THE 
UNITED STATES Gt)VERNMENT POR HIS SERVICES DURING THE WAR 
OP THE REVOLUTION, BUT HE LIVED ONLY TWO YEARS AND 
THREE MONTHS THEREAPTEK, DYING WHEN HIS YOUNG SON WAS 
BUT EIGHT YEARS OLD. 

ON NOVEMBER 3(i, 1843, POLLY TI10MPS(JN PHILLIPS, Ills WIDOW, 
RECEIVED A PENSION, AND SUP SURVIVED HIM UNTIL 1S70, HER 
LIPE TERMINATING IN THE HOME OP II PR SON IN SHELBY COUNTY 
ILLINOIS. 

LEWIS PATRICK PHILLIPS RECEIVED AN EXCELLENT EDUCA- 
TION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IN POWELL'S ACADEMY, OP 
NORTH CAROLINA. 

AT THE COMMENCEMENT OP THE CIVIL W.\R HE WAS A .lUSTICE 
OP THE PEACE IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, AND LATER, HE WAS 
EXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE IN THE CONPEDERATE ARMY, BV 
REASON OP HIS BEING THE AGENT AT STABLING'S STATION,' OP 
THE NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL RAIL ROAD COMPANY, WHICH POSI- 
TION HE HELD UNTIL THE CLOSE OP THE WAR, ALTHOIU.'H HIS REPU- 
TATION AS AN ACCOUNTANT AND MANAGER INDUCED THE CONFEDER- 
ATE MILITARY COMMANDER IN HIS VICINITY TO CALL UPON HIM POR 
ASSISTANCE, AND POR A SHORT PERIOD HE ACTED AS CLERK POR 
COLONEL RADC:LIFF. 

IN APRIL, 18Ci5, HE WENT TO SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHERE 
HE CONDUCTED THE OPERATIONS OP A FAIUI UNTIL 1870, WHEN 
HE ACCEPTED THE APPOINTMENT OP DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK OF 
MOULTRIE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH POSITION HE HELD FOR SIX 
YEARS. 

IN 1876 HE RETURNED SOUTH AND, LOCATING ON A FARM IN 
JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS, HE RAISED ( (ITTON AND CORN DURING 
THE SUCCEEDING ELEVEN YEARS. 

IN 1887 HE CAME TO CALIFORNIA AND MADE A HOME IN 
DOWNEY, LOS ANiiELES COUNTY, WHERE HE HAS SINCE RESIDED. 

IN 1894 HE WAS ELECTED JUSTICE OP THE PEACE FOR DOWNEY 



TOWNSHIP, AND IN NOVEMBER, 1910. HE WAS RE-ELECTED FOR THE 
THIRD TERM OF FOUR YEARS. JUDGE PHILLIPS DURING HIS LONG 
LIFE HAS BEEN AN ADHERENT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DEMO 
CRATIC PARTY, BUT THE AFFECTION OF HIS NEIGHBORS, THE GREAT 
REGARD OP HIS ASSOCIATES AND THE RESPECT FOR HIS CHARAC- 
TER AND ABILITIES, HAVE PLACED HIM ON THE .lUDICIAL BENCH 
DURING FOUR ELECTIONS IN A DISTRICT HAVING A LARGE REPUB- 
LICAN MAJORITY. 

HE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIMES AND HAS BEEN BLESSED 

!/ WITH FOURTEEN CHILDREN, THOSE OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION 

1/ BEING MEMBERS OP HIS FIRESIDE. 

HE CARRIES HIS SEVENTY-NINE YEARS WITH A VIGOR THAT 
PROMISES MANY DAYS OF HAPPY ASSOCIATION WITH THE LOVED 
ONES OF HIS CALIFORNIA HOME. 



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